Singers also do extensive breath/diaphragm exercises: https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/2016/10/vocal-exercises-f...
I played the flute for a few years as a kid, and breathing was a big deal during my lessons.
Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)
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#42Lot of people tend to have respiratory failure before situation gets worrisome and breath exercises are a definite way to help your body do what a ventilator does In yoga asanas, there are few breathing exercises that existed in ancient India and I myself can attest to it that I was able to overcome lot of allergies practising it, Here is a resource to follow along. https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8 starts at 9 mins and g…
Yes! Breathing like that will purge carbon dioxide from your blood more quickly and result in higher oxygen levels. There are some really powerful exercises based on oxygen breathing in quite a few different traditions. Some names I've heard of are "holotropic breathing", "circular breathing", "breath of fire", "round breathing", "bioenergetics breathing", and "Wim Hoff method". Wilhelm Reich made use of oxygen incre…
I don't use any particular breathing technique and my blood oxygen saturation is typically very close to 100%, just like most other people without lung disease. If you're getting benefits from breath work then that's great, but it's not because of oxygen levels.
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#43I wanted to improve my presentation skills. I felt my voice was too nasal and thin, I spoke too fast, and emphasised too many words.
So I approached a voice training coach. It seems everything -- from delivery, pauses, speed of delivery to sore throats -- could be improved if one could pay attention to proper breath control, and diaphragmatic breathing. I can certainly attest to that.
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#44I had pneumonia when I was 14 (weakened immune system after growing 6 inches in 8 months...) and the doctor prescribed breathing exercises which were very helpful. There was of course a ton of ABX as well as inhaled steroids, but after all of that, the breathing exercises were what helped to restore me to normal. (The Prednisone actually did a lot of harm, don't go off it without a taper!)
Is there any evidence that fast growth rates cause weakened immune systems? That seems highly improbable. Lots of people get pneumonia.
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#45I wanted to improve my presentation skills. I felt my voice was too nasal and thin, I spoke too fast, and emphasised too many words. So I approached a voice training coach. It seems everything -- from delivery, pauses, speed of delivery to sore throats -- could be improved if one could pay attention to proper breath control, and diaphragmatic breathing. I can certainly attest to that.
I went looking for a voice coach. All I could find were singing coaches and autistic speech therapy ones. Nobody who could coach me at giving presentations. How did you find yours?
Re: Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)
#46Lot of people tend to have respiratory failure before situation gets worrisome and breath exercises are a definite way to help your body do what a ventilator does In yoga asanas, there are few breathing exercises that existed in ancient India and I myself can attest to it that I was able to overcome lot of allergies practising it, Here is a resource to follow along. https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8 starts at 9 mins and g…
> we pull in stomach when inhaling
Wat? My stomach goes out when I inhale. I could not find any way to pull in my stomach and inhale.
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#47>From an early age, you were likely taught to breathe with your upper chest. Wait, what? People are taught how to breathe? Is this really a thing?
Haven't heard about it. I breathe with the "proper method" instinctively and never knew this was even a thing.
Perhaps it's something specific to American culture.
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#48Lot of people tend to have respiratory failure before situation gets worrisome and breath exercises are a definite way to help your body do what a ventilator does In yoga asanas, there are few breathing exercises that existed in ancient India and I myself can attest to it that I was able to overcome lot of allergies practising it, Here is a resource to follow along. https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8 starts at 9 mins and g…
> we pull in stomach when inhaling Wat? My stomach goes out when I inhale. I could not find any way to pull in my stomach and inhale.
Simply “fill” your chest while inhaling and your stomach can’t not go in.
Imagine a cartoon of someone taking a deep breath before blowing out a candle or something.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
In respiratory therapy school we were taught some breathing exercises to teach patients who were graduating after being on a vent, had lung surgery following cancer, COPD and/or other pulmonary issues. Some of the trainers like the inspiratory and expiatory trainers have benefits to non-compromised patients - some athletes use them for training in sports like swimming and basketball. Maybe an MD will chime in, howeve…
Thanks for posting. I’ve done diaphragm breathing exercises for sports training and meditation. How does using these inspiratory/expiratory devices strengthen the lungs? Isn’t the action just strengthening primarily the diaphragm and some chest muscles used in breathing? How many minutes training per day would you recommend for healthy people? And how much does the Pflex sell for? Site makes you request to order and…
Aww geeze, I knew someone was going to ask some followup questions and I'd be out of my depth!
To be honest, I didn't practice in the field very long as an RT because I fell into hospital IT after my rotations and took to it like a duck to water and ended up really enjoying that as a career.
I'm gonna refer you to this study which - you are right- does show the insp/exp trainers help to strengthen breathing muscles. So perhaps it's the equivalent of using weights at the gym vs just doing diaphragm breathing exercises.
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#50>From an early age, you were likely taught to breathe with your upper chest. Wait, what? People are taught how to breathe? Is this really a thing?
Haven't heard about it. I breathe with the "proper method" instinctively and never knew this was even a thing. Perhaps it's something specific to American culture.
There's really nothing in American culture about breathing one way or another.